{"id":67,"date":"2007-08-20T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:20:32","slug":"blue-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/08\/blue-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BlueBlue sky! – not a lot but the first that I’ve seen for awhile.\u00a0 And the other bits are clouds and NOT smoke.\u00a0 A little rain last night cleared things for a bit and more rain forecast for this afternoon and this week.\u00a0 The wind in front of the rain made everyone nervous and they evac’d some around the active fires, but everyone back home today.\u00a0 Engine 7 from my district is back as well as the Fire Chief and Dept President that went to the Black Cat Fire.<\/p>\n

Everyone is talking about Fall – this will be one of the most anticipated and appreciated Fall seasons since I’ve lived in Montana – although most everyone enjoys the color, the cool, crisp days…the lack of tourists.\u00a0 Even though the tourists\u00a0provide the foundation of our local economy…they take up parking spaces, and restaurant room – and this weekend… I was entering the grocery and nabbed by one who wanted to know what there was to “do”, where was\u00a0a farmer’s market??? And when I hesitated – because most of the farmer’s markets are on Thursday and I was trying to remember if the one at the mall was on Saturday – and while I was thinking, he had the nerve, I say THE NERVE to laugh AT me and make a comment about having asked the wrong person.\u00a0 I should have laughed back and walked away but felt compelled to defend myself and made some suggestions all of which he shot down as his wife had already done those things –\u00a0 a blown dry, CA – yuppie baby boomer – WHY did they even come to MT???\u00a0 And why was I not smarter in response??\u00a0 Plus, I was at the grocery story in town that I HATE and always swear to never go in again, but went because I wanted just a few things – arrgggh!\u00a0 Luckily, it was cool enough to have Karl in the car with me and he kissed me on my return and all was well – we went home, had a good lunch and played nerf football – all better!<\/p>\n

My impatiens…I bought them late after returning from Colorado – 1\/2 price at the nursery – gorgeous… I put them in the shady part\u00a0of the garden when I went to Missoula thinking they would get plenty of water from the garden sprinklers, but on my return they looked dead – I wish I had taken a photo.\u00a0 I almost threw them out, but decided to see if they would at least partially revive and so I apologized to them – over and over – and gave them a good drink and by the next morning they looked well, although no blooms.\u00a0 So I kept it up and after the foilage seemed good, gave them some food and WOW – you would never know that they had suffered a drought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Blue sky! – not a lot but the first that I’ve seen for awhile.\u00a0 And the other bits are clouds and NOT smoke.\u00a0 A little rain last night cleared things for a bit and more rain forecast for this afternoon and this week.\u00a0 The wind in front of the rain made everyone nervous and they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22513,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/22513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}